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By Yuji Nakamura and Haidi Lun

January 11, 2018 at 3:46 AM UTC

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January 11, 2018 at 6:48 AM UTC

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The world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange keeps getting bigger.

Hong Kong-based Binance.com is adding “a couple of million” registered users every week, with 240,000 people signing up in just an hour on Wednesday, Chief Executive Officer Zhao Changpeng said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. Demand is so high that the company is limiting new customers, he said, though Binance may fully reopen in the coming weeks.